Keeper (YC S21) is hiring engineers to build a personal accountant for everyone

Complete Stack Engineer (San Francisco or Remote)

$120K – $180K / 0.05% – 0.35%

Call it the gig economy, the enthusiasm economy, or side hustles, over half of Gen Z employees are now earning money with 1099 agreements. Tax law is made complex, and numerous freelancers are overwhelmed. They can’t manage an individual accountant, and do not have time to go into the information of what counts as a write-off. As an outcome, they’re leaving countless dollars on the table at tax time.

Keeper’s objective is to repair this by supplying everybody with an individual accounting professional. Keeper comprehends all the minutiae of tax law, reacts in minutes rather of days, and produces a tailored tax filing experience for each user based upon the types they publish.

Users enjoy our item! Here are some current client quotes (Jan 2024):

Caitlin holds my hand throughout this procedure, and I’m bad with taxes and its terminology. She is fast to react and has enjoyable messages.

This app made discovering write-offs so uncomplicated … Other apps appeared so ambiguous that I wasn’t sure if I was enabled to declare what I was declaring. The reality that it’s evaluated by tax specialists offers me comfort.

You can find out more on the App Store

What you might be dealing with

• Context-based intelligence: When users ask Keeper a concern, we wish to offer responses associated to the screen the user is on, and we wish to connect users to various actions and various parts of the app.
• Earnings tracking: We ought to have the ability to keep an eye on and anticipate earnings in addition to expenditures. This will assist users get a complete image of the accounting side of their organization, and will provide us a crucial piece to forecasting the user’s April tax expense.
• Quarterly taxes: Freelancers are expected to reserve and pay taxes every quarter, based upon their earnings that quarter. This is a manual job that varies by state and in some cases needs sending by mail a physical type. We ‘d like to allow users to pay us to do this for them.

Engineering at Keeper

Here’s the kind of engineer who will prosper at Keeper.

• You desire a great deal of autonomy, and have the ability to produce fantastic outcomes individually. At Keeper, you own your roadmap, you own your functions end-to-end (from conceptualizing with PM to publishing in the App Store), and you have considerable autonomy over technical choices.
• You are product-focused and user-focused. We utilize React, Node, and SQL since they’re basic. I desire our greatest issues to be associated with determining what to develop and what user discomfort indicate concentrate on, not determining the innovation.
• You take pleasure in assisting others. You assist engineers debug difficult concerns, brainstorm brand-new functions with PM, and assist client assistance when they emerge concerns with our systems.

One method to comprehend these worths is to see them as a set of contrasts.

• Autonomy: It’s on you to hold yourself to a high bar, push yourself to go quick, and push yourself to be a craftsperson with code. If you aren’t self-motivated to do these things, Keeper might not be an excellent fit.
• Item focus: While we make time for brand-new innovations and refactoring, it’s not a significant focus, and is mainly driven by item requirement.
• Partnership: While there might be committed functions for x-functional interaction at other orgs (e.g., PMs or tech leads), at Keeper, engineers work straight with stakeholders. This puts more obligation on the engineer to be responsive to stakeholders.

Duties

• Team up with PM to come up with brand-new functions and brand-new methods to fix issues we’ve found
• Ship functions utilizing React, Node, and SQL. While we utilize React Native on mobile, React Native experience isn’t needed
• Check your code (both by hand and instantly), and monitor it in production
• Teach other engineers about systems and innovations you understand truly well, and gain from other engineers when increase on brand-new systems and innovations

We desire the interview procedure to be representative of the work you’ll be doing. In general, we wish to establish high conviction of fit. We desire to understand that we’re an excellent chance for you, both in terms of our company chance and in terms of your profession advancement. Second, we need to know if you’ll be a terrific suitable for our requirements, which are especially concentrated on shipping item quickly.

1. Quick call with Matt (employing supervisor and CTO) (30 minutes): I’ll pitch you on Keeper, and we’ll speak about why you why you wish to sign up with, and how you wish to contribute.
2. Technical round 1 (45 minutes): You’ll carry out a brand-new function in an open source React library.
3. Technical round 2 (3 x 45 minutes): You’ll resolve consumer issues with React, JS, and SQL, and you’ll conceptualize a brand-new function with PM.
4. CEO 1-1 (30 minutes): Paul (our cofounder and CEO) will evaluate our objective and vision with you, and will likewise examine culture fit.
5. Recommendations

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